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J’avançai, regardant la créature se remettre debout tout en lâchant un grognement sourd et menaçant. J’allongeai mes deux bras et, par ma volonté, forçai l’apparition de mes armes dans mes paumes ouvertes. Les khépesh jumeaux apparurent comme par magie, avec un éclair de lumière scintillante. Les lames argentées et courbées brillèrent vivement. Je jetai un coup d’oeil à Will. Je pouvais maintenant voir les tatouages noirs et complexes sortir de sous son pull, serpentant le long de son bras droit jusque sur ses jointures.

Une mère désespérée surprenant l’innommable dans le quatre pièces et demie miteux qu’elle partage avec son salaud et leur couple de jumeaux. Un frère et une soeur télépathes ayant sauvagement perdu leur innocence, avidement convoités par les serviteurs de Satan. Une adolescente rebelle à l’enfance éclatée servant de guide dans une métropole abritant anges et démons. Un prêtre et une sorcière cherchant à accomplir la plus ancienne des prophéties du Necronomicon.

The appearance of Dark Man cannot be an event without consequence. Once come into this world, he will entice you with candy, seep into your skin, and savour your blissful ignorance of his purpose. Roberto Pace delights us with this story of a wild pursuit, set in an imaginary Central Europe that has descended into madness at the apparition of a remarkable anti-hero, Dark Man.

Tales of spooks and spirits that have taught generations of readers what it means to be afraid of the dark-by authors from H.G. Wells to Willa Cather. Before movies, television, and teams of high-tech "ghost hunters" running around darkened houses, there was only one sure-fire way to scare people: ghost stories. Some of the greatest names in literature have expertly crafted haunting tales that put the reader in a whole other world in which every shadow holds a new fear-where the lines between the living and the dead are erased and the spirits are always willing.

The iconic Gothic horror classics that gave birth to the monstrous myths that still inhabit our nightmares. Tragic heroines, windswept moors, dark and stormy nights, castle prisons, and forbidden desires realized at the greatest cost-these are the elements of Gothic horror, given its finest expression in these five enduring novels. Frankenstein: Obsessed with the secret of creation, Swiss scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein cobbles together a body he is determined to bring to life.

From a New York Times-bestselling author: A new kind of phone awakens the dead in this technological horror novel "reminiscent of Koontz at his best" (Booklist). Ever since his life was shattered by the kidnapping and murder of his young daughter, Peter Russell has become a ghost of a man. Once a successful director of adult films, he has been reduced to running questionable errands for an eccentric California millionaire. But everything changes when a Los Angeles start-up offers him the opportunity to create promotional videos for their revolutionary new technology, Trans.